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Labor Force Characteristics of a Rural County's Commuters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Roger J. Beck
Roger J. Beck*
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Department of Agricultural Economics at Cook College/Rutgers University
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Research which is designed to evaluate the strength and mix of factors which tend to initiate and sustain economic growth must provide methods of measuring these factors. If one of these factors is taken to be the availability of labor as the Committee on Economic Development in the Northeast (1977) suggests, then methods of measuring the availability of labor need to be developed. Articles by Bonnen (1972) and Gardner (1975) have provided researchers with an incentive to do a better job of operationalizing and measuring the concept of labor availability.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 165 - 175
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Helpful comments from J. Dean Jansma, G. Joachim Elterich, and Edmund F. Jansen, Jr. on an earlier draft are gratefully acknowledged. This work was performed as a part of NJAES Project Number 02411, supported by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

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